Powerful Black Minds - Beyond Entertainment

[EdJo]

This thread is to celebrate smart black people, beyond entertainment. It is knowledge to inspire us, our kids, our grandkids and etc.

Charles Ward Chappelle (1872-1941) was an early 1900s African-American aviation pioneer and medal winner, electrical engineer, and businessman who was president of the USA’s African Union Company, Inc., whose mission in the early 1900s was to create small, modernized African cities for blacks with leased land from the Gold Coast (British colony) of West Africa. Several hundred thousand dollars in capital was raised during that time period for construction and modernization on the Gold Coast (British colony) through the stock market, and infrastructure metal deals were made with companies such as U.S. Steel. In the beginning of Chappelle's business, he was reported to have made contracts with 82 tribal chiefs in Gold Coast, West Africa, for the exportation of gold, cocoa, rubber, and mahogany. The money was to be used to develop 440 miles with the African Central Railroad and the West Coast Steam and Harbor Company, both African-American and African joint ventures.

C.W. Chappelle’s successfully designed a long-distance airplane. He won a medal for being the only African-American to invent and display an airplane at the spectacular 1911 First Industrial Airplane Show held in conjunction with the U.S. International Auto Show at Manhattan’s Grand Central Palace in New York City. His airplane invention was written about in several of the African-American media, one foreign Ghana newspaper described it as a quadruplane, and others just wrote about the excitement of there being an African-American airplane inventor and taking a place in the history of aviation. The event had a host of the well-established attending and speaking, and was covered by the media for two weeks. And, his airplane invention was an excitement for the African-American community. In a May 1911 issue of The Crises: A Record of the Darker Races, Social Uplift (page 7) published by the National Association of Colored People (NAACP) in New York City, there is a brief mention of C.W. Chappelle and his aviation invention.

 

[EdJo]

Granville Tailer Woods (April 23, 1856 – January 30, 1910) was an American inventor who held more than 50 patents. He is also the first American of African ancestry to be a mechanical and electrical engineer after the Civil War. Self-taught, he concentrated most of his work on trains and streetcars. One of his notable inventions was the Multiplex Telegraph, a device that sent messages between train stations and moving trains. His work assured a safer and better public transportation system for the cities of the United States.

Inventions
Woods invented and patented Tunnel Construction for the electric railroad system, and was referred to by some as the "Black Edison."

In 1885, Woods patented an apparatus which was a combination of a telephone and a telegraph. The device, which he called "telegraphony", would allow a telegraph station to send voice and telegraph messages over a single wire. He sold the rights to this device to the American Bell Telephone Company. In 1887, he patented the Synchronous Multiplex Railway Telegraph which allowed communications between train stations from moving trains, a technology pioneered by Lucius Phelps in 1884.

Thomas Edison later filed a claim to the ownership of this patent. In 1888, Woods manufactured a system of overhead electric conducting lines for railroads modeled after the system pioneered by Charles Van Depoele, a famed inventor who had by then installed his electric railway system in thirteen U.S. cities. In 1889, he filed a patent for an improvement to the steam-boiler furnace.

Granville Woods often had difficulties in enjoying his success as other inventors made claims to his devices. Thomas Edison made one of these claims, stating that he had first created a similar telegraph and that he was entitled to the patent for the device. Woods was twice successful in defending himself, proving that there were no other devices upon which he could have depended or relied upon to make his device. After Thomas Edison's second defeat, he decided to offer Granville Woods a position with the Edison Company, but Granville declined.

 

[EdJo]

So, the "great white mind and genius", Thomas Edision, tried to patent 2 INVENTIONS from Mr. Granville, and after the plan failed, he invited Granville to work for him...Tell me something new...

 

[EdJo]

Arden Warner - A black man, invented a device to clean up oil spills using magnets. Arden was born in the West Indies on the island of Barbados. After immigrating to the USA as a teen, he followed his already established interest in science. Arden now has a doctorate, working by day as an Accelerator physicist at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and after hours as a tinkerer, attempting to solve problems he finds interesting and for which he thinks the solutions may be simpler to harness on shorter time scales.
Arden Warner - TEDxNaperville

We might be able to save the oceans, from oil spills, because of this powerful black mind.

 

[BlackJesus]

Dope thread.

Keep them coming.

 

[EdJo]

Benjamin Bradley was an African American engineer and inventor, born a slave in Maryland around 1830.

Benjamin Bradley developed and build an engine large enough to run the first steam-powered warship in the world.

Benjamin Bradley was the first person to develop a working model of a steam engine for a warship. Born in Maryland around 1830 Bradley was owned by an unidentified slaveholder in Annapolis, Maryland. While living in Annapolis Bradley worked for a printing company at a young age. At the age of 16 he demonstrated his great skill in mechanical engineering. He constructed a model of a steam engine out of two pieces of steel, a gun barrel, and pewter. Impressed by this feat, his master arranged for Bradley to work at the Department of Natural and Experimental Philosophy at the Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. Bradley became the first African American to hold any but menial posts at the Naval Academy.

Bradley learned to read and write at the Academy. In time he became an assistant who set up experiments for the Academy's faculty. While working at the Naval Academy he sold his first small steam engine to a Midshipman living in Annapolis. This engine was powerful enough to run a small boat. Bradley used this money to expand on his findings and create an even larger model.

Around 1856 Bradley built an engine that was capable of propelling the first sloop-of-war (a small warship carrying guns on one deck) at the rate of 16 knots an hour. His engine was the first ever created that was powerful enough to run a war ship. Bradley was unable to patent his invention under the United States law because he was a slave. He did however sell this engine and earn enough money to purchase his freedom. His date of death is unknown.

Benjamin Bradley (inventor) - Wikipedia
Bradley, Benjamin (1830- ?) | The Black Past: Remembered and Reclaimed


Now ask yourself this, how many more cases we had, of slaves, not being able to patent their inventions and forced to sell or put in the name of their masters?????? Smh

 

[EdJo]

A powerful black mind that invented glasses that let you see cancer cells.

Samuel Achilefu is a Nigerian-born Professor of Radiography and Biomedical engineering. He currently serves as a Professor of Medicine at Washington University School of Medicine and a research member at Alvin J. Siteman Cancer Center.

He and his team figured out a way to use ultraviolet (UV) light and an illuminating agent to identify cancer cells from normal, healthy cells by using his invention, “cancer goggles.” In the latest prototype, the goggles have slimmed down to become eyeglasses, with transparent data screens in the lenses.

The innovative glasses, known as Cancer Goggles, were invented by Washington University professor of radiology, Dr. Samuel Achilefu. The new technology injects patients with a bio-luminescent marker that attaches to the cancer cells. A surgeon wearing the specialized goggles can see the malignant tumors glow once the near infrared light is beamed.


“Now you can see through it. You can see the patient directly, like nothing is there, and we now include the cancer cells inside – it’s in the glasses,” Achilefu said. “The screen does not block your vision at all, but it is projecting the cancer cells in that screen.”

What he is currently investigating is equally amazing.

Achilefu is using that same UV light, which is invisible to the naked eye, and a photosensitive chemotherapy drug and the body’s immune system to target and obliterate cancer cells – breast cancer cells, specifically. Late last year, he became the first recipient of the Breast Cancer Research Program Distinguished Investigator Award, a $4.5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Defense to do just that. The work, known as photoimmunotherapy, finished basic stages and is in animal model testing.

Samuel Achilefu uses UV light to find and kill cancer

 

[EdJo]

Edmond Albius (1829 – 9 August 1880) was born a slave and became an important figure in the cultivation of vanilla. At the age of 12, he invented a technique for pollinating vanilla orchids quickly and profitably. Edmond Albius discovered the process of artificial insemination of vanilla. Albius technique revolutionized the cultivation of vanilla and made it possible to profitably grow vanilla beans away from their native Mexico. Thus, expanding the vanilla industry into what it is now.

Albius was born in St. Suzanne, Réunion Island. His mother, a slave, died during his birth, and he was adopted by his master, Féréol Bellier Beaumont.

Jean Michel Claude Richard, a noted French botanist and plant collector, tried to claim his invention.

 

[EdJo]

Shelby Jacobs (1935-)
Shelby Jacobs is a mechanical engineer, who worked on the Apollo space shuttle program. These projects, including the Apollo-Soyuz orbiter space shuttle program for which he was the project manager, are still considered to be one of the most remarkable engineering achievements in the history of mankind.
Jacobs later went on to design the propulsion systems and hydraulics instrumentation, which included a camera ejection system in 1965. He is best known for his role in the design, installation and testing of the camera system, which flew on the unmanned Apollo 6 flight in April 1968. The video footage of the separation between the first and second stages of the shuttle is one of the most repeated images in space history.

 

[EdJo]

Dr. Ashytey Trebi-Ollennu is a Ghanaian born resident of the United States of America. He is a robotics Engineer at NASA and is the chief engineer of a team that designs robots for NASA missions at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Ashytey Trebi-Ollennu was born in Ghana and begun his education at the Ghana Secondary Technical School. He was the leader of the team that designed the Mars Rover robot that landed on the red planet.

In an interview on BBC, Dr, Ashytey Trebi-Ollennu noted that he had started a project in his home country of Ghana to make a more likable and fun subject. He worked on the Phoenix (spacecraft) that found water on Mars. He is currently working and leading, on robots for the InSight mission.

In 2011 Ashietey formed the Ghana Robotics Academy Foundation (GRAF), a nonprofit volunteer organization dedicated to motivating and inspiring the next generation of Ghanaians' interest and participation in science and technology.

If you guys don't know, the InSight mission, is the next mission to Mars. That will investigate below the surface of the red planet to study its geology using advanced seismographs.

PS: Props to our brother, for being a powerful black mind. But i think his knowledge should be enjoyed and used by us. Robotics is the present and future, and guys like him should be developing their own agencies and employing black people.

 

[ALMIGHTY GOD]

more more!!!!


any lesser known entrepreneurs?

 

[EdJo]

@ALMIGHTY GOD

Bertin Nahum (born 14 November 1969) is a French-Beninese born in Dakar(Senegal) entrepreneur residing in France, President and Founder of Medtech, which designs and markets the medical robotic technology ROSA.

Medtech CEO, Bertin Nahum, is commonly considered one of the most influential figures in the surgical robotics industry and a revolutionary high-tech entrepreneur.

Bertin Nahum’s status as a “revolutionary high-tech entrepreneur” is surpassed only by Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg and James Cameron, according to the 2012 Discovery Series ranking, which picked out the Senegal-born French national as deserving of unreserved praise in his field. A self-proclaimed “diverse entrepreneur”, Nahum’s career is best characterized by an unrelenting willingness to advance the technological capacity of healthcare and introduce innumerable innovations to the industry.

One year later, in September 2013, Bertin Nahum was awarded the Chevalier insigna in the French National Order of the Legion of Honour, which he received from Fleur Pellerin, then Minister Delegate with responsibility for Small and Medium Enterprises, Innovation, and the Digital Economy.

Bertin Nahum | Medtech – European CEO

Bertin Nahum - Wikipedia

 

[EdJo]

Osh Agabi

Osh Agabi, nigerian, created a device that can be used to detect the smell of explosives and even cancer cells.

Agabi envisages airports that will need no visible security system, allowing people to just walk on to planes.

Nigerian creates device that can detect explosives and cancer cells

The man teaching a computer to smell


Another article about Osh Agabi:


Nigerian Neuroscientist Builds Computer Processors with Biological Neurons

A Nigerian scientist may well be on the path to revolutionizing the computer industry after successfully building a model of computer processors using biological neurons instead of the traditional silicon chips.
Oshiorenoya Agabi, 38, has built a computer processor which can be best described as a fusion of biology and electronics. According to the BBC, the modem-sized device, which he dubbed “Koniku Kore” could provide the brain for future robots.

Nigerian Neuroscientist Builds Computer Processors with Biological Neurons - Face2Face Africa

 

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[CapitalforCapital]

It’s crazy how this is a pro black site but threads like these do no numbers. We gotta do better